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[Volt875]

Hey all, like many gamers I imagine I came to the glory that is Savage Worlds after playing much D&D. So I was wondering, is there a power out there that is like D&D's lightning bolt? More specificly the "Line" type targeting? I've been doing some converting of old D&D modules to Savage Worlds and got to thinking about how to do a black dragon's acid spit.
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[Thunderforge]

If the bolt power doesn't cut it (in that it only hits one target), you could use the Fantasy Companion's jet power, which creates a damage stream in a straight line 1" wide and 12" long from the caster. Damagewise, it works just like the burst power (in that targets dodge or take 2d10 damage).

Lightning and acid would of course both be the elemental trappings found in SWD or the Fantasy Companion.
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[Volt875]

Ah thank you very much Thunderforge (fitting name given the topic's title anyhoo) I think that jet power is just what I was looking for.
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[Bavix]

Oddly enough, every time I've seen Jet used it's been as a lightning bolt. It just fits.
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[Volt875]

As an aside, is there a power for something like chain lightning? My friend came up with a really good idea on how to do it (granted he was getting lightning bolt mixed up with chain lightning at the time but anyhoo). You'd cut a piece of string 12 inches long and then use that as your range thingy.
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[VonDan]

In some games sytems the lightning bolt and chain lightning are different and in some almost the same. Sometimes it goes in a line and hits any thing in that line and sometimes it can hit one target and then turn and hit the next closest target and so on and so on till five targets are hit. Sometimes the power of the strike against each victim is the same and sometimes weaker with each hit.

The fun with this is how often you kill you parties members or you do the math and lay out a fire plan and figure the last hit will be on your party but only the lowest damage type. In one game I had a perfect line up and a magic user at each end of the enemy line had a chain lighting spell and killed 5 enemy at once. And then I spent house reloading the "Spell Jammer" PC game due to the lighting spell making random bounces off walls I had not expected.

The 12 inch string is a good idea for chain lighting, decide how many targets it can or HAS TOO hit and then figure out if the damage is constant or gets weaker with each hit. Will it bounce off any obstacle and are they are FFF (Fun Fatal Fumbles) with snake eyes
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[Zadmar]

You could also just use Bolt to represent chain lightning, describing multiple bolts as the lightning arcing from one opponent to the next.

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[Clint]

[ValhallaGH]

Lighting Bolt! Burst power, but change the area to a 1" by 12" line.

Chain Lightning! is either a multiple-target Bolt power or the Burst power. If the Burst power only hits enemies (never allies) then increase the cost by +2 (that's a significant advantage to the trappings).

That's how I've handled them in my games. Because Trappings are awesome.
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[Volt875]

[MagusRogue]

what, you DON'T have those books?!!? Get on it!!!!
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[ahoapap]

I believe this guy sums it up very succinctly and efficiently.
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